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  • High-tech hardware spending returns, no help for IT jobs
    IT decision makers will be investing in hardware in the coming six months, but high-tech executives say staffing levels will remain flat.
  • Flight risk? High-tech talent set to take off post economic recovery
    High-tech workers who endured salary reductions and added workloads will be looking for new jobs as an economic recovery gets underway, according to new research from Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology.
  • Global Forum sees information technology driving recovery and boosting democracy
    The prestigious technology policy and development meeting emphasized the economic potential of information and communication technology (ICT) to pull the world into recovery.
  • Can the Internet handle H1N1?
    While sounding a bit like Chicken Little, Federal government watchdogs today said that the H1N1 pandemic will cause a significant increase in the use of the Internet by students and teleworkers that would create serious network access congestion. Such problems may need to be fixed by government involvement or service providers limiting network access or by asking people to lay off the streaming videos for a while.
  • IT pay cuts: Are you next?
    As more companies enforce across-the-board pay cuts and unpaid furloughs, a rising tide of IT professionals is seeing its annual compensation decline and must decide whether to switch employers as a result.
  • Secure telework without a VPN
    Toronto brokerage firm Octagon Capital ended up choosing an unusual hardware-and-cloud service from Route1 to secure its telework environment.
  • Five signs your telework program is a bust
    Telework programs won’t deliver the potential cost-savings and stress-reduction benefits they promise if companies can’t get their policies straight.
  • Do you know where your employees are working?
    Enabling employees to work from anywhere can save companies time and money while boosting productivity. Here’s how to do it right.
  • Hiring budgets begin to thaw
    Research from Challenger, Gray & Christmas shows employers are planning to replenish their workforce as the economic recovery gets underway.
  • China's online video piracy jumps to Internet TVs
    Internet-linked televisions, many containing peer-to-peer download tools, are winning buyers in China despite piracy concerns and a battle between government factions over how to regulate the industry, according to analysts.
  • Merchant silicon means low TCO
    Now more than ever enterprises need to reap the largest possible returns on their network infrastructure investments, and while competitive pricing is an important up-front consideration, total cost of ownership is even more critical.
  • IE, GDI flaws good place for IT to start Patch Tuesday cleanup, experts say
    With 13 patches released on Patch Tuesday, IT administrators have a daunting task of just deciding where to get started. Experts advise that the best place is where the most damage can happen, and where it can happen fast.
  • Missing dot drops Sweden off the Internet
    What was essentially a typo last night resulted in the temporary disappearance from the Internet of almost a million Web sites in Sweden -- every address with a .se top-level down name.
  • Wall Street Beat: Tech braces for earnings
    U.S. markets are taking a breather this week before a wave of earnings reports, with tech stocks lifting on positive macro-economic news.
  • Compuware to acquire Gomez for $295 million
    Compuware plans to boost its application performance management technology with Gomez’s Web application expertise.
  • Is the worst of recession over for IT pros?
    IT pay increased slightly in the second quarter of 2009. Meanwhile, hiring managers across 15 U.S. metropolitan areas list the high-tech skills most in demand.
  • How to stop IT managers from going rogue
    Nearly half of all data breaches come from inside an organization, which is why industry watchers say enterprise IT departments need to invest in technology that ensures no one person has all the power.
  • Microsoft turning configuration management “on its side”
    Microsoft is changing up the next version of its System Center Configuration Manager so instead of managing devices it will manage users and their activities across multiple devices.
  • Xerox will buy business process outsourcer ACS for $6.4B
    PARIS -- Xerox has agreed to buy business process outsourcer Affiliated Computer Service for $6.4 billion, in a move it hopes will allow it to expand beyond the field of document management.
  • CIOs seek better results, lower costs
    CIOs can see the light at the end of the dark economic tunnel, but that hasn’t shifted their focus from increasing productivity and reducing costs.
  • What to do about bandwidth hogs?
    InTown Suites, a low-cost extended-stay living chain, had a problem with users of file sharing applications who were consuming all of its network bandwidth. Here’s how they solved the problem.
  • Tech industry loses 115,000 jobs
    The U.S. high-tech industry shed some 115,000 jobs between January and June 2009, marking a 2% net job loss as the country's economy overall experienced more than 5% job loss
  • Take two: Nominum tries hosted DNS
    Nominum is hoping that the second time is the charm in the outsourced DNS market, as the maker of high-end DNS software announces a hosted service.
  • Dell-Perot deal: Big price tag, small industry impact
    Dell’s $3.9 billion bid for Perot Systems could strengthen the hardware maker’s services arm, but competitors Accenture, CSC, HP-EDS and IBM won’t see the deal as a business threat.
  • US company burned by China Web filter plans rival product
    A U.S. company whose software code was allegedly stolen in China by a controversial, government-backed Internet filtering program will hit back by launching a rival product for a low price in China, the company said late Sunday.

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